Narratives from Nepal: Relief and rebuilding after the Gorkha Earthquake
Narratives from Nepal: Relief and rebuilding after the Gorkha Earthquake by Lucas Joel Wednesday, November 18, 2015 People at base camp on Everest — shown here during an avalanche in 2013 — felt the shaking of the April 25 Gorkha quake, which was followed by an enormous avalanche that killed 19 people. Credit: Deana Zabaldo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Base Camp, Mount Everest, April 25, 2015, about noon: A tremendous boom echoes through the air, the ground heaves and a wall-like cloud of snow propelled by an avalanche advances toward the tents. Mountaineers scatter, diving into tents to av...
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